Professional Relationships 2018
Establish and maintain professional
relationships and behaviours focused
on the learning and wellbeing of each
learner.
Reflection: Cactus
This term I decided to get involved in the Cactus programme. Cactus is a programme that runs over 8 weeks under the guidance of local police officers and fitness trainers. The military style training is carried out 3 mornings a week at 6am and involves 25 students showing up in their uniform and adhering to a strict set of rules set by staff David Massey. The group of girls who participated this year were from year 11-13 and were involved for a variety of reasons including, to address behavioral concerns, to strengthen leadership skills and to increase self-confidence and motivation. For the students who I teach that were involved in Cactus I noticed a huge change in their attitude and motivation in class as well as at the Cactus training sessions. For me it was a great opportunity to see how the girls responded to this type of training and also to build more of a rapport with the girls through suffering along with them, putting myself out there, and getting to witness their strengths, weaknesses and successes. It was also a way for me to get to know more students who I don't teach, which was really helpful. Each week of Cactus there was a guest speaker on Friday morning after breakfast and in week 6 I was given the task of being the guest speaker. It was a good opportunity for me to share a bit about myself with the girls as I was asked to talk about my life experiences and education and how I ended up here at Rotorua Girls High. I hope that the girls learnt something from my korero about the importance of pursuing education as well as finding what makes you tick and what you enjoy in life and that this knowledge is gained through getting involved and putting yourself out there for new experiences even when it may be out of your comfort zone. I feel that my involvement in Cactus definitely helped to build relationships with students and establish myself as a leader to students with knowledge and life experience that they were interested in.
I also worked on a video to be presented at the Cactus graduation night with our super talented photography and design teacher Bryony.
Reflection: Team teaching
Reflection: Cactus
This term I decided to get involved in the Cactus programme. Cactus is a programme that runs over 8 weeks under the guidance of local police officers and fitness trainers. The military style training is carried out 3 mornings a week at 6am and involves 25 students showing up in their uniform and adhering to a strict set of rules set by staff David Massey. The group of girls who participated this year were from year 11-13 and were involved for a variety of reasons including, to address behavioral concerns, to strengthen leadership skills and to increase self-confidence and motivation. For the students who I teach that were involved in Cactus I noticed a huge change in their attitude and motivation in class as well as at the Cactus training sessions. For me it was a great opportunity to see how the girls responded to this type of training and also to build more of a rapport with the girls through suffering along with them, putting myself out there, and getting to witness their strengths, weaknesses and successes. It was also a way for me to get to know more students who I don't teach, which was really helpful. Each week of Cactus there was a guest speaker on Friday morning after breakfast and in week 6 I was given the task of being the guest speaker. It was a good opportunity for me to share a bit about myself with the girls as I was asked to talk about my life experiences and education and how I ended up here at Rotorua Girls High. I hope that the girls learnt something from my korero about the importance of pursuing education as well as finding what makes you tick and what you enjoy in life and that this knowledge is gained through getting involved and putting yourself out there for new experiences even when it may be out of your comfort zone. I feel that my involvement in Cactus definitely helped to build relationships with students and establish myself as a leader to students with knowledge and life experience that they were interested in.
I also worked on a video to be presented at the Cactus graduation night with our super talented photography and design teacher Bryony.
Reflection: Team teaching
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